Is it ok to breathe again?

It feels like my default mode these days is for my body to be in a full-clenched, fight or flight mode. All. Damn. Day.

And honestly, I'm not even a little bit mad about that. It makes sense. That's what it's there for. To protect me during times like these.

But.

It's also not so great for creative work, deep thinking or strategy work.

One of my normal strategies of going for long walks in nature just isn't as relaxing as it used to be when there are so many other people around. So I've had to come up with some ways to let my guard down (when I'm in a fully isolated environment that has been thoroughly disinfected of course).

I've found some good tunes where I can jam out for 5 or 10 minutes and have a little one-man dance party around the apartment. I also do lots of handstands which for some reason helps to be inverted for a bit.

One unique little hack I've found. Whenever I read something on social media that suggests to "take a deep breath" I stop everything I'm doing and take an actual deep breath. It's been a wonderful reminder.

I'm glad to know that 1000s of years of biological programming is still doing it's job. And I'm also thankful for the deep breaths and dance parties during all of the chaos.